Re: To RISC or not to RISC
- From: "f0dder" <f0dder.nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 15:41:04 +0100
Donkey wrote:
However now they are all essentially general
purpose with a only few legacy opcodes (scasb jecxz etc..) to remind
us of their original intent. But that said I agree, R0...R16 is the
way to go when they are just general purpose registers.
Don't forget that things like MUL and DIV which are pretty essential also
use fixed destination registers... that's one of the more annoying things
about x86. Especially since the internal executing engines have hardly had
this limitation for ages >_<
.
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